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Conky is a light weight system monitor for Linux and BSD systems that displays information about your system on the root window. You’ve probably seen cool screenshots around the web that show a Linux desktop with all kinds of information printed to a part of the background. There’s a good chance that you were looking …

UPDATE: This technique no longer works on Linux Mint 17 Qiana. Please see Enable Synaptic Mark All Upgrades Button in Linux Mint 17 for the latest technique. I recently reviewed Linux Mint 15 Cinnamon Edition and one reader pointed out in the comments that the Mint team removes functionality from the Synaptic Package Manager. Specifically, …

I recently received a Pogoplug as a birthday gift. If you’re not familiar with the Pogoplug, it is a small Linux based plug computer that allows you to share personal files over the web. You can think of it as your own personal cloud storage server. While you can always access your Pogoplug files through …

Building a mobile website for your blog or business can be a daunting task. Perhaps you’re an expert at mobile website development and you can design a mobile website on your own just fine. But for many of us, learning to do this would take far too much time and effort and probably wouldn’t turn …

The latest version of Ubuntu just came out; Ubuntu 13.04 – Raring Ringtail. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has done a good job setting up a set of defaults for a fresh install, but there are a few things you may want to add or change on your freshly installed OS.